and compiled only linux-headers package. btw linux-api-headers package is currently in
archpup.sfs, it should be in archdev, good thing for saving 700KB. Will test later compiling
whole kernel modules and vmlinuz, or someone else could test - you would need to do this:

Compiled 3.7.2 kernel and using it right now,
BUT there is one problem - aufs header is missing from /usr/include/linux, file aufs_type.h is not
created in that folder after make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=$destdir/usr headers_install. Will try to
fix it, to only make linux headers I commented two lines

Code:

#make menuconfig
#make bzImage modules

and added exit at the end of compile function, so package function never starts.
What's worth to mention - with linux-3.6.8 using same method aufs header - IS created.

I have installed the printer driver. However, I regret to inform you that I am not able to print. I don't know the reasons. In windows, it asks the Department Id and Password. However, here I don't find any builtin settings or not asking any ID or PWd while giving print order .? This is network printer so no direct connection is provided. Every department having Numeric Id and Password. In windows, there is no problem. Any such option is available in Canon Linux Printer Driver. Sir, do you have any idea.

simargl,
what is the "linux-headers-3.6.8-1.tar.bz2.gz" file you posted above?
Neither pacman nor tar can handle it (I did try also removing .gz of .bz2)
(Latter: I guess it is what it says. A gzipped bzipped tarball
The headers work fine though )

Regarding the 3.7.2 kernel, I trust you added "include/uapi/linux/aufs_type.h".
What "make headers_check" says?

BTW Aufs support for 3.7.x just started and may have problems. Also any drivers compiled against 3.6.8 must be recompiled...
If you plan a 12.12.3 you may want to stick with 3.6.8_________________Kids all over the world go around with an XO laptop. They deserve one puppy (or many) too Edited_time_total

but still the 3.6.8 kernel is problemetic with a lot of devices._________________Copyrights and Patents aren't real kinds of property. Copyright Nazis brainwash you to believe they exist so they can chill free speech, innovation, and creativity. Good people DON'T believe that Copyright exists!

Yes, but this has to do with how it was compiled, the firmwere and udev. Not with the kernel version.
All the other puppies with the exception of the latest Upup, have considerably older kernels. How do they do with your hardware?..._________________Kids all over the world go around with an XO laptop. They deserve one puppy (or many) too

Hi simargl, thank you for your help that I didn't use until yet because of the obsequies at home.

I did try to download the package at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat/ and to install it using the option pacman -U according to your recommandations in the build-in help of 12.12.2 but nothing to do...

the option pacman -Ss doesn't find some icecat package (Debian doesn't install icecat but his own iceweasel and doesn't work closely with GNU !)

so that I actually yet use a marvelous actual version of Slitaz (under 1 Go with full TeX live and Lyx installed; please, it is no provocation from me: Slitaz did have big problems in the last 2 years but they are evidently solved! an perfect X windows, a Linux conform management of users and password excepted that user 'tux' is standard (can be changed; if changed at installations time, or after the first start under installation from a real password) that I did discover to overcome my difficulties in ArcPup. if user created at installations time, he doesn't need some password (and can do 'su' or 'sudo' without password ; 'root' does also co exist with password 'root' or other password). if created after first start, it become a full linux with full password control! what can be more flexible? a great among of applications in the 44 MB Iso of the "rolling version" (the stable version stay on ab. 30 MB Iso but is 1 year old, really old...), a really full support with an absolutely transparent organisation: www.slitaz.org, forum.slitaz.org, mirror.slitaz.org, doc.slitaz.org in a lot of languages, an automatic versions control in the doc between language versions (a real dream for not English spoken Puppy users ), a full repository with all packages from slitaz and from users, and sources for all the stuff since version 1.0 and an old as well as a full actualized new Slitaz scratch book! this are really heavy high standards for a little troupe! the installations system is an best specimen of the art using the browser as frontend (Slitaz panel with abilities to install new packages)! it is possible to bind the main partition as /home/ and create at installations time in that /home/ the user dir /home/tux properly so that you can reinstall without difficulty and changes in the main partition other as in /home/tux and never have to mount it extra! extraordinary performances from the smallest linux distro : half of ArchPup, quarter of other actual Puppy's. There is no icecat or libre kernel but my own copy of icecat works properly in it. Please, look at it to develop ArchPup as modern with an equivalent high logical organization!Edited_time_total

You can't use pacman to install packages from the AUR. The AUR contains no actual packages, just sources and scripts. Those files are used to locally create a package and install it. These packages aren't actually thoroughly tested enough for use by a normal user._________________Copyrights and Patents aren't real kinds of property. Copyright Nazis brainwash you to believe they exist so they can chill free speech, innovation, and creativity. Good people DON'T believe that Copyright exists!